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A PAir oF louiS XVi gilT Bronze-MounTeD MonuMenTAl
cHineSe corAl AnD gilT PorcelAin VASeS – circA 1780
The porcelain Kangxi Period (1662-1722), the mounts possibly Viennese
Height: 73.5 cm. (29 in.) Width of base: 20.7 cm. (8 ¼ in.) Depth of base: 20.7 cm. (8 ¼ in.)
ProVenAnce
galerie Aveline, Paris, January 1977
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A silver-mounted chinese Kangxi Period porcelain ginger pot enamelled with the same motifs as these
exceptionally large vases is in the collections of the getty Museum (87.Di.4), reproduced in gillian Wilson,
Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, los Angeles, 1999, p. 45, no. 7.
A lATe louiS XV gilT Bronze-MounTeD SeVreS
PorcelAin gArniTure oF THree PoT-Pourri VASeS
(VASES A MONTER) – circA 1768-1770
The soft paste ‘bleu céleste’ porcelain 18th Century
Height of central vase: 29 cm. (11 ½ in.) Width of central vase: 21.5 cm. (8 ½ in.)
Height of pair of vases: 23 cm. (9 in.) Width of pair of vases: 15.5 cm. (6 in.)
MArKS on THe cenTrAl VASe
The mark of the flower painter François Binet (active at Sèvres 1750-1775). The mark of the
gilder Jean-Baptiste-emmanuel Vandé père (active at Sèvres 1753-1779)
MArKS on THe PAir oF VASeS
‘B’ for the gilder François Jean-Pierre Boulanger (active at Sèvres 1754-1785)
ProVenAnce
collection of Madame Jules Fribourg, sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 May 1969, lot 62
liTerATure
Svend eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, london, 1974, pl. 242 and p. 363 (ill.)
The Sèvres factory from around 1764 produced vases à monter intended to be fitted with gilt bronze mounts. These vases took one of three main forms and were sold
largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them. These mounts in turn tend to conform to five basic patterns, which suggests that each marchand-mercier had
their own signature design. The earlier vases were glazed in solid ground colours – probably in imitation of chinese porcelain – although by 1770 invoices exist for
pieces decorated like these with green and blue grounds scattered with foliate wreaths centred by roses. Vases with mounts identical to these were marketed by the
marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier (circa 1720-1785) who counted Madame du Barry amongst his most important clients. in September 1770, du Barry
purchased a garniture of five vases for 942 livres from Poirier described as bleu céleste à petites Roses et montées en bronze d’oré d’or moulu.
coMPAriTiVe liTerATure
A vase with a mount identical to the central vase makes up part of a garniture of five vases at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, connecticut (inv. 1917.1096)
reproduced in linda H. roth and clare le corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Hartford, 2000,
pp. 156-158, no. 74.
An identical garniture is illustrated in giacomo and rozenn Wannenes, Les bronzes ornementaux et les objets montés, Milan, 2004, p. 336, and another identical one with
a green ground was in the collection of Jaime ortiz-Patiño, sold Sotheby's new York, 20 May 1992, lot 31 (illustrated op. cit..).
A PAir oF eMPire gilT Bronze lArge Four-ligHT
APPliQueS – circA 1805-1810
Height: 60 cm. (23 ½ in.) Width: 45 cm. (17 ¾ in.)
each body in the form of a draped Victory, her outstretched arms carrying four cornucopia-
shaped lights and feet placed on a globe terminating in a pierced palmette.
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
The same figure of Victory, her feet upon a globe, is found on a pair of appliques in the Mobilier
national, reproduced in ernest Dumonthier, Les bronzes du Mobilier national: bronzes d’éclairage
et chauffage, Paris, [1910], pl. 27.
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cHineSe corAl AnD gilT PorcelAin VASeS – circA 1780
The porcelain Kangxi Period (1662-1722), the mounts possibly Viennese
Height: 73.5 cm. (29 in.) Width of base: 20.7 cm. (8 ¼ in.) Depth of base: 20.7 cm. (8 ¼ in.)
ProVenAnce
galerie Aveline, Paris, January 1977
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A silver-mounted chinese Kangxi Period porcelain ginger pot enamelled with the same motifs as these
exceptionally large vases is in the collections of the getty Museum (87.Di.4), reproduced in gillian Wilson,
Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, los Angeles, 1999, p. 45, no. 7.
A lATe louiS XV gilT Bronze-MounTeD SeVreS
PorcelAin gArniTure oF THree PoT-Pourri VASeS
(VASES A MONTER) – circA 1768-1770
The soft paste ‘bleu céleste’ porcelain 18th Century
Height of central vase: 29 cm. (11 ½ in.) Width of central vase: 21.5 cm. (8 ½ in.)
Height of pair of vases: 23 cm. (9 in.) Width of pair of vases: 15.5 cm. (6 in.)
MArKS on THe cenTrAl VASe
The mark of the flower painter François Binet (active at Sèvres 1750-1775). The mark of the
gilder Jean-Baptiste-emmanuel Vandé père (active at Sèvres 1753-1779)
MArKS on THe PAir oF VASeS
‘B’ for the gilder François Jean-Pierre Boulanger (active at Sèvres 1754-1785)
ProVenAnce
collection of Madame Jules Fribourg, sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 May 1969, lot 62
liTerATure
Svend eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, london, 1974, pl. 242 and p. 363 (ill.)
The Sèvres factory from around 1764 produced vases à monter intended to be fitted with gilt bronze mounts. These vases took one of three main forms and were sold
largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them. These mounts in turn tend to conform to five basic patterns, which suggests that each marchand-mercier had
their own signature design. The earlier vases were glazed in solid ground colours – probably in imitation of chinese porcelain – although by 1770 invoices exist for
pieces decorated like these with green and blue grounds scattered with foliate wreaths centred by roses. Vases with mounts identical to these were marketed by the
marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier (circa 1720-1785) who counted Madame du Barry amongst his most important clients. in September 1770, du Barry
purchased a garniture of five vases for 942 livres from Poirier described as bleu céleste à petites Roses et montées en bronze d’oré d’or moulu.
coMPAriTiVe liTerATure
A vase with a mount identical to the central vase makes up part of a garniture of five vases at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, connecticut (inv. 1917.1096)
reproduced in linda H. roth and clare le corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Hartford, 2000,
pp. 156-158, no. 74.
An identical garniture is illustrated in giacomo and rozenn Wannenes, Les bronzes ornementaux et les objets montés, Milan, 2004, p. 336, and another identical one with
a green ground was in the collection of Jaime ortiz-Patiño, sold Sotheby's new York, 20 May 1992, lot 31 (illustrated op. cit..).
A PAir oF eMPire gilT Bronze lArge Four-ligHT
APPliQueS – circA 1805-1810
Height: 60 cm. (23 ½ in.) Width: 45 cm. (17 ¾ in.)
each body in the form of a draped Victory, her outstretched arms carrying four cornucopia-
shaped lights and feet placed on a globe terminating in a pierced palmette.
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
The same figure of Victory, her feet upon a globe, is found on a pair of appliques in the Mobilier
national, reproduced in ernest Dumonthier, Les bronzes du Mobilier national: bronzes d’éclairage
et chauffage, Paris, [1910], pl. 27.
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